Taking Liu Yifei back to Northeast China for the Chinese New Year has sent the entire internet into

"Fine, don't eat it then."

Fang Yu shrugged and took the spicy candy strip back.

"But...didn't you just want another skewer of candied hawthorns?"

Liu Yifei took a half step back, her face full of vigilance.

"What's wrong?"

Fang Yu picked up a proper string of candied hawthorns and then picked up the garlic clove with rock sugar.

He held a string of beads in each hand and waved them in front of her.

"You can have it if you want, but it's no fun just giving it to you directly."

"Let's play a game."

"I'll put these two strings behind my back, you guess them."

"Eat whichever one you guess correctly."

Liu Yifei shook her head frantically.

"I'm not playing!"

This is practically gambling with your life!

Fang Yu, however, refused to back down.

"Give it a try, it'll be fun!"

He took half a step forward, his tone light and casual.

"Look, it's a choice between two, a fifty percent probability."

"You're a celestial beauty, how could your luck be bad?"

Liu Yifei bit her lower lip, her gaze shifting back and forth between the hawthorn and the garlic.

She was torn.

The viewers in the live stream were getting anxious.

Don't fall for it, Fairy Sister! This is definitely a trap!

[I have a feeling that no matter how I guess, the fairy sister has no chance of winning...]

[The guy in front is right! Fang Yu's heart is completely black!]

Seeing that she was still hesitating, Fang Yu decided to add fuel to the fire.

He put his hands behind his back and fiddled with them a few times.

After stopping, he stared into Liu Yifei's eyes.

"Alright, since it's Chinese New Year today, I'll be merciful and let you off the hook."

"The hawthorn one is on the left hand."

He gave the answer directly.

Liu Yifei was stunned.

The live stream audience was also taken aback for a moment.

[He said it directly?]

Wait, wait, what's going on here?

Don't believe him! If he says east, you have to go west! The right way to understand this person is to listen to them from the opposite perspective!

Liu Yifei's mind began to race.

Did Fang Yu offer her the answer on his own initiative?

Has the sun risen in the west?

Since he entered the village, the pits he dug could circle Kaoshantun three times if laid end to end.

How could he be so kind?

He said it's on the left hand, so it definitely isn't on the left hand!

This is the most basic form of reverse psychology!

The more Liu Yifei thought about it, the more she felt she had seen through everything.

She raised her delicate chin high, her gaze piercing.

"Right hand!"

His tone was extremely decisive, even carrying a sense of superiority that suggested he was intellectually superior.

Fang Yu remained expressionless.

He slowly pulled his right hand out from behind his back.

A string of plump, round garlic cloves coated in glistening sugar stood out prominently in the cold wind.

Liu Yifei's sense of superiority crumbled bit by bit.

"what?"

She stared wide-eyed in disbelief, her rosy lips slightly parted.

Fang Yu then extended his left hand.

Authentic rock sugar hawthorn.

Liu Yifei's expressions are so captivating that they could be made into a nine-grid meme.

The live stream chat exploded instantly.

[Hahahaha! The fairy sister has dug herself into a hole!]

Fang Yu told the truth! It was the only time in his life he'd ever told the truth, and even the Celestial Immortal didn't believe him!

Is this the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"? No, this is an even more ruthless version!

[I laughed so hard I hiccuped! Help! I could laugh for a whole year at that "Huh?" expression from Liu Yifei!]

Fang Yu shoved the string of candied garlic directly into her mouth, his smile utterly irritating.

"Come on, fairy sister!"

"One bite at a time, no cheating allowed!"

Liu Yifei looked at the glistening garlic clove so close to her face, and her stomach clenched.

She wanted to back out, but she couldn't bring herself to do it in front of the national cameras.

not to mention……

She insisted on choosing the right hand!

Liu Yifei clenched her fists.

Her eyes gradually changed from conflicted and pained to resolute.

A tragic aura, one of fearlessness in the face of death, emanated from her frail body.

She suddenly reached out and snatched the bunch of garlic.

"Fine, I'll eat!"

"I, Liu Yifei, am not someone who can't take a joke!"

After saying that, she closed her eyes tightly, as if she were about to die a heroic death, and then opened her mouth.

Slowly approaching.

The garlic clove coated in sugar was getting closer and closer.

Three centimeters.

Two centimeters.

Liu Yifei's lips almost touched the cool surface of the sugar shell.

"Alright, alright."

A large hand suddenly reached out.

Fang Yu simply pulled the string of garlic away from her mouth.

"Just kidding."

Liu Yifei opened her eyes, stunned.

Has this guy suddenly had a change of heart?

However, before the thought could fully form, the idea was still in progress.

Fang Yu picked up the spicy candy strip again and stuffed it into her hand.

"Garlic is out of the question, the smell is too strong."

"If you really eat it today, then we probably won't be able to talk to each other for the next few days of the New Year. I'm afraid I'll faint from the smell."

"Let's eat this instead; spicy strips are better than garlic."

Liu Yifei was speechless and rolled her eyes dramatically.

It seems Fang Yu is still the same bastard Fang Yu.

However, when she looked down again at the spicy candy strip in her hand...

A few minutes ago, she labeled this thing as an inhumane and culinary abomination, saying that just looking at it made her eyes dirty.

But after experiencing a near-fatal crisis of swallowing raw garlic.

Now look at this spicy snack.

It seems... it's not entirely unacceptable.

Even the amber-colored sugar coating looks somewhat tempting.

Liu Yifei looked at Fang Yu, narrowed her eyes suspiciously, and suddenly realized what was going on.

"Fang Yu, confess honestly..."

"Did you want me to eat this spicy snack from the very beginning?!"

Fang Yu did not answer directly. Instead, he crossed his arms, raised his chin slightly, and spoke slowly in the tone of an old professor lecturing.

"As Mr. Zhou Shuren once said..."

Liu Yifei was completely bewildered: "...?"

What does this have to do with Lu Xun?

He said: "The Chinese people are always inclined to compromise and moderation."

Fang Yu held up one finger and shook it.

"If you say the room is too dark and you want to open a window, everyone will definitely disagree."

"but--"

He changed the subject, his smile growing even brighter.

"What if you say I want to tear this roof down!"

"After thinking about it, they decided to open the window. Opening the window is good; I can accept it."

Fang Yu pointed to the string of candied garlic, and then to the candied spicy strips in Liu Yifei's hand.

"The garlic is the roof I'm going to tear down."

"Spicy strips are the window I truly want you to open."

A cold wind blew through the courtyard.

Liu Yifei looked at the spicy strips in her hand, then at Fang Yu's face, which shone with wisdom.

She finally understood completely.

What's with all this guessing? What's with all this talk of accepting the consequences of a bet?

It's all part of this guy's elaborate scheme.

Rock sugar and garlic were never meant for her.

That was just a terrifying benchmark used to make spicy strips seem "acceptable."

The scariest thing is——

Looking at the spicy candy strips in her hand, she actually had a thought that "this thing doesn't seem so outrageous after all!"

The window... is indeed open.

The chat in the live stream room had completely gone wild.

If Zhou Shuren (Lu Xun) were alive, he would surely say: "When I wrote that passage, I never imagined that one day a young man from Northeast China would use it to trick a girl into eating spicy snacks!"

[Fang Yu, what did you study? Psychology or fraud studies?!]

I cried! The "Fairy Sister" (Liu Yifei) was clearly a victim of PUA (Pick-Up Artist) tactics!

The most outrageous thing is! Even the "Fairy Sister" (Liu Yifei) now genuinely finds spicy strips acceptable... This tactic is just too elaborate!

[Lu Xun: I didn't say that. Zhou Shuren: But I did say it.]

I'm really curious now—would the "Fairy Sister" (Liu Yifei) actually eat spicy candied strips?